You get inside Pictor's house, you see Pictor, painting something, a mountain, and Scriptor writing at the side.

Pictor notices you, she says:

"Welcome home, chosen one, thou rang the Bell of Revival?, Tis great to hear."

"A Bell progress through time, so the time comes, and thy duty wilt end."

Scriptor ends her writing, she says:

"Welcome home, chosen one."

"Thou hast defeated Iovita?, I can share the story of his to thee, if thou want."

You sit, gesturing that you want to hear it.

She notices how curious you seem, she lets a soft little smile, and says:

"The story of a Pridful knight, that climbed the ranks of the Flavius army, and held the Captain rank of the whole army, in place of the beast Leander, the former captain, of course, Iovita adopted Octavius as his son in a very young age, Iovita, in his rank, discovered the dirty road pride leads to, the slavery of ash Dragons and exiling them to the abyss, the curse that was set upon his only king, Flavius, so he left the land, but Octavius did not, he stayed with his pride on his soul, Iovita left, but he did not know how to cast his pride, serving a King was his only purpose in life, he did not consider to throw his armour nor weapon, he lived, looking out for his only son, Octavius."

...

You nod, as if you want more.

"Thou wanteh another story?"

"Hah, I know the story I shall tell."

She leans back while siting on the ground, she takes a deep breath.

"Curiosity only leads to success, and one believes in what he wanteh to believe in, I assume."

"Thou do not havt to believe in my stories, Thou need to knowledge them with thine ears."

You nod.

"Tis good, chosen one."

She grabs a paper on the ground, and read it for you.

"The story wilt be about...The blood of the Dragons, which affected the land, in the ancient Old battle of Dragons, An invasion of ashen Dragons from an ancient land, the world of Attor, The Dragon Lord of ash, Came to rescue His crossbread and only Daughter, to attack the land of Holiness, For his daughter, but.. the Dragon lord failed, with his army falling to the ground, Flavius approached the Lonely Dragon lord, attempted to slay him, but The Ashen Dragons art an immortal ancient beings of Cinders, they were slaved, exiled, banished, and prisoned in the most disturbing place to beest, the Abyss."

Pictor is hearing her sister while she is painting, she lets a little Chuckle.

Scriptor flips the page, and continue reading.

"The Abyss, a place beneath the world, with such power with no owner, a place with such darkness on one can hold, resembles the darkness within humanity, all hatred, all despier, all agony..."

"A place for all humanity, a prison.. to mankind, and it darkness spreads, like dust in the sky, Flavius did seal it long ago with a giant door, to prevent it from spreading, and left a guard for that door, one of his youthful sons, Avilius, the keeper of the Abyss."

Pictor stops painting for a moment, she looks at you and her sister Scriptor, she smile, a nervous smile, Scriptor notices her, she sighs and leans back, while keeping the page.

She continue reading.

"The Ashen Dragons were sealed, at the bottom of the Abyss, before that, a scholar from the high ranks of his Academy, a friend to Flavius, a fire Sorcerer named Osirus, took the crossbread of Attor, and took a sample of her blood, to make his only King, Flavius, immortal like the Dragons of Cinders, his research on The Daughter of Dragons flourished, he kept researching her, prisoning her for the sake of his King immortality, he went on a quest to gather all the materials for the research, whilst the Crossbread, prisoned, dying from starvation, when the Lout sorcerer camest, he found her, dead, he travelled all the way to the Frozen peak, to throw her in a lake, in a place now named "lacuses regis", the Lake of the King, the body turned into ash, that sparkled around the Lakes, turning everything it touches into immortal beings, all the town around the Lakes, turned into souless beings with immortality, a terrible kind of immortality, the town knew about it, and they all turned into mindless humans, because of the ashes, it contained immortality, and the feelings she hadst, Wrath, agony, suffering, greif, a terrible fate for her, the Dragon's Blood curse, affected all of "lacuses regis", just because of a search for immortality."

She puts the Page on the ground, looking directly into your eyes, she says:

"Quite the story, gaining knowledge is important, Chosen one."

You ask her about the Ashen dragons.

She tilts her head, she answers with:

"The Ashen dragons are Dragons from an ancient land of Lord Attor, their scale is from Cinders, Embers, Ashes of their own Kin, Lord Attor is an ancient Dragon with gigantic look, fitting for a Lord of Dragons."

"The Ashen dragons hadst their own culture and knowledge of the world, their land is covered with mist, and fog, a fitting place for them to hide."

Pictor looks at you, and says:

"Now now, Twas a good time for storytelling, Thou cannot have all knowledge in one day, Chosen one, thy mind need to rest."

Scriptor adjusts the pages, and says:

"Yes, a mind need to rest, or it get overwhelmed."

You don't seem that you really care, but whatever, you get to Pictor, She looks up to you, she says:

"Hm, Dost thou wanth something from me?"

You ask her to examine the Saber you got from the Hamlet.

She taks it, examining it from every angle.

"Tis a nice sword indeed, a nice metal, with such an edge and curve, hmm..."

She flips it, and looks at the handle.

"Hm, it says here, 'The Abyss is Nigh', I do not know what doest that means.."

"A nice sword for thee, Chosen one, I admire it."

"But, it doest have connections with the Abyss, there is something deep behind this sword."

She gives it to you, you take it, she curiously looks at you.

"Chosen one, I want to talk with thee, for a moment, sit down hither."

You sit down, besides her, Scriptor looks at the two of you, she seems curious.

Pictor Looks at you nervously, she seems that something is bothering her and she wants to talk about it.

You simply look at her, she takes a deep breath, she says:

"I wanteth to ask thee a question, I apologize for wasting thy time with this question, but I have to..."

She sighs.

"I wanteth thou to know, if thou accepted us as companions, even if we are not from the same kin, I wanteth to know if thou accepted me and my Sister as allies, even if we did not help you much, but doing our best to."

You simply just nod, a "Yes" to her question.

She seems that she calmed herself, she sighs.

"Ah, Thank thee, Chosen one, thine answer is a relief to me, Thank thee.."

"Take this, that's.. what I have.. n-now."

She gives you a ring, with a letter.

A tear rolls down her cheek, she looks away, you hear her, mumbling.

Scriptor notices her sister's face, she crawls to her, to confront her.

"Chosen one, thou should go, for now, Thank thee for thy time with us..."

You exit the House, you really don't feel anything.

You see the letter, it says:

"Dear chosen one, seek the Grave of Lector, in the Lake of the King, place the ring besides it."

Chapter 3.1: lacuses regis.

When you exit the House, you see Chiyo, you approach her.

"Hello, Chosen one, I wanted to bid thee about something."

"In the lacuses regis, lays my Sister, a green Geisha, Named Katsu, she's gone mad, I need thou to end her, I apologize for wasting thy time, but... Please, Chosen one..."

You nod.

She puts her hands on her chest.

"Oh, thank thee Chosen one, I will be sure to get thee a reward.."

"Oh, I almost forgot to say, Maria told me that she will go to the lacuses regis, thou will see her there."

You Nod to her, she seems grateful.

You move towards the lacuses regis, it doesnt sound that snowy here..

You move forward, you see a very big area, with lakes, Dirty and neglected..

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No one is around, only deserted, forsaken houses, it's very warm here, no snow at all, only ashes, Ashes, swarming the sky, Like tree leaves in the autumn, truly amusing.

You walk through the swamp, slowly, observing the derelict houses, being devoured by Ground below, And the snow melts, like the human feelings of mankind.

As you walk, The ashes begin to swarm your vision, like fog, you're legs begin to tumble, as you go further and further in the swamp, you don't see anything at all.

You feel like someone is breathing besides you right now, you feel a whisper besides your ear, you don't understand it, but you keep going.

You through the fog, you fell like something is crawling in your back, you grab it anf throw it at the ground.

It's a headless, small beast, with a lot of fur in his back, his ribs are visible, due to starvation, however, he can't eat, his blades are ready to pierce through flesh.

You see small eyes on his chest, however.

You stab his eye when he was at the ground, you can hear a howl when you stabbed him, he turnes into ashes.

You move along, you see someone, wearing a black garb, Sitting at a crossroads of Two different ways to walk through, you slowly approach him.

"Ah, Thou must be a Cavum, what a coincidence.."

"My name is Albert, Leader of the Beast hunters in the Frozen Peak."

"What thou will see here is not just beasts, they are dragonic beasts, some of then breath steam, some of them fog, and the others breath Crystals, they are intelligent enough to know magic, I guess."

"Watch out, Cavum, those dragons are numerous."

He laughs, you don't know what he is talking about, really.

"Oh, right, those Two roads leads to different locations, thou may consider taking a left, hm?, It's better."

"I'll go there too, to clean up the mess, move along, now."

You move to the left road, he seems weird enough to earn your trust.

You don't see much, just a road leading to nothing, you feel something touching your feet, however.

A large centipede wrapped itself around your leg, you stab it with your saber, it produced a strong smell, you see Two headless breasts rushing at you, how do the beast hunters deal with this on daily basis!?

One of them rushes at you, you stab his eye, you see ash on your blade, he turns into huge amount of ash.

The other screams, a Large Centipede appears from his head place, it breaths a poison.

You get back quickly, the beast mumbles something, you don't really understand it, you notice that there's a small mouth in his belly, however.

The beast breaths a strong steam from his mouth, you get blown off and fall to the ground, you get back quickly, you don't know how to approach him now..

The beast launches at you, to let the Centipede eat your head, you quickly cut the Centipede Head and killes it, The Beast screams distressingly.

He launches at you, you stab his mouth with you saber, it pierces through his mouth, you can see him quivering.

You face is full of ashes now, you wipe off the ash from your blade, you can see blood in your blade, too.

Chapter 3.2: Inside the Lakes.

You move along the road, you see an ordinary house, you open the door of it, you see nothing at all, just a simple house, sounds suspicious for you.

You enter the house and shut the door, you notice a woman, she's sounds that she's looking for something, in the dark, you don't see much of her, you approach her.

You hear her saying..

"Father?, Father?, where are you?, please..."

You approach her more, she didn't notice you, she's saying now:

"Father, please, tell me, where are you..."

You hit the floor with your foot for her to notice you, she hears you, she turns at you, She immediately hugs you.

"Father!, I have found you!"

You don't know what to say right now, she looks into your eyes, she looks like Maria by a lot..

She looks at you, she immediately looks away, she's the same Maria...

"Oh, Cavum... Tis good to see thou alive."

You really don't know what to say.

"Thou hadst made it to the Lakes, Tis good.."

"I apologize for earlier, thou looked like my Father, Even Though I do not remember him that much..."

She sighs.

"Thou must continue thy journey now, I will be here, if thou wanteh something...

She makes a nervous giggle.

You ask her about Albert.

She looks at you, she calms down a little, she says:

" Hmm..Thou havt met Albert, he is the leader of the Beast hunters, sworn by the oath of hunters to kill the Beasts in all the Land, Ira beasts, Dragonic beasts, and mad Hunters."

She lets a soft chuckle.

"...What a sad purpose in the name of nobility."

You don't know what to say now.

She looks at you, she says:

"Now, Farewell, Fellow Cavum, may thy journey be at ease."

She Giggles.

You get out of the house, wondering about this place, what you can do now?

You get further in the Lakes, there's nothing to see, except for dead bodies, signs with an unknown language, ashes, deserted houses, and most importantly, Swamps.

You see living Centipedes in the dead bodies of headless beasts, wonder what they can do..

The Centipede gets in the body of the Headless beast, appearing through his head, bringing life to it again, the body gets up to face you, with a huge centpiede controlling it, the beast opens his mouth, he breaths fire from his mouth!

You get back immediately, unfortunately, You trip over a rock and fall to the ground, the Beast is still breathing fire, while walking slowly towards you, you throw the rock in the Beast's mouth, he stops breathing And suffocates, you quickly stab the Centipede and pull it from the Beast body, the Centipede turns into Ashes too.

You continue walking, the swamps color begins to get darker and darker, like the soul of humanity, more and more, darker.

A lot of bodies, a lot of animals like a bird with the head of a human, a headless goat, and a chicken with arms, you stumble across a rock again and the ring fall into a beast body.

The Beast wakes, and takes the ring, he swallow it.

Chapter 3.3: locuitor lacustru.

You get up, and look at the Beast eyes, he is very humanoid, a tall, human covering his face, he is clothed too, but his sound is like a horse, and he has an Axe.

He charges at you, swinging the axe like a maniac, screaming as he swings, you get back and stab his chest, it didn't seem to do anything...

He screams more, he jumps at you to attack, you get immediately to the side, while trying to cut his arm, but it didn't do that much, his skin seems like stone..

The beast gets angry, screaming, he runs at you, charging his attack to hit you, you get back and stab his gut, it really did something..

The Beast looks irritated, he stays frozen, while you wait for an attack, you see him quivering, suddenly, a huge tentacle appears from his mouth, it attacks you from above, you get to side quickly and stab it, the beast stands frozen, The tentacle returns to the Beast's mouth.

The Beast screams, a very loud scream, he throws the axe at you then jumps at you, you quickly move out, he rushes at the axe to take it.

He launchs at you like the Beast he is, trying to split your head in half, you get back, and stab his head, then slash his eyes, and quickly get back, following what the scroll Gabriel gave you said, it didn't damage him at all, though.

This beast is intimidating, the only place that damaged him was his gut..

his Behaviour is weird, and that tentacle too...

He throws the Axe again, you get to the side quickly, He hurls a fireball from his mouth, you rush at him while dodging the fireball.

He stands still, you pierce through his gut, and exit from it, to open his gut entirely, you see the ring there, with the flesh and blood of this ominous Beast, he turns into a large amount of ashes.

You take the ring, and get out of this mess, to another place..

You see Albert, before you approach him, you see a big swamp within a huge area with a great amount of houses, and a lot of beasts, fighting each other like maniacs.

You approach Albert, while he stands there, looking at this mess, you get close to him, he notices you.

"Oh!, what a surprise, hm?, you fought your way into the Lakes, thou fought well."

"Look ay those mindless Beasts, fighting each other, huh, What a miserable fate."

"That's what one sins do to the people around him, I guess."

Chapter 3.4: Cemetery of Ashes.

"If thou have the guts to face this swamp, thou will witness what is Beyond, the Cemetery of Ashes, where lays the Grave of Lector, the Dragon crossbread, that bestowed her blood across the Lakes, turning everything it touches into Beasts." Said Albert, while spreading his arms towards the sky.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you something, have thou met a woman named Maria?, I'm on a quest of finding her, in this forsaken hamlet."

You nod, but you don't really know what can happen, you don't seem to care, though.

"Oh, Well, I must be blind then.. I must continue my quest, may thy journey be at ease."

You get into this Huge swamp, while the beasts are fighting, you see the Cavum horned-beasts here too, and a bunch of beasts you didn't encounter..

While walking across the Swamp, while not driving any attention from the Beasts, a Beast rushes at you, a Large Beast, with One Dragon Wing in his back on the left, and having one large arm in his right, all covered in scales, his arm is armed with sharp blades, and have a humanoid face, coverd with scales, he howls at you, he is the "Armata bestia."

Suddenly, some Cavum beasts launchs at this Dragonic Beast, piercing their fangs into the Dragon scales, eating through his flesh, cutting his only Wing, you take the chance and flee before they see you.

The Ira Beasts and The Dragonic Beasts are still fighting in this Swamp, the houses were crushed by this war, the Ashes swarmed the sky, and the blood spreads everywhere, how brutal..

You see a vile Cavum beast, Chomping the Centipede from the Headless Beast, how terrifying...

The Ashes, all go to the same direction, magicly, you decided to follow it, to a road, full of graves and Ashes, with no sound at all, you walk across it...

The place seems Magical, Ashes, and graves, with nothing at all, an empty road full of dust, you remember what Albert said earlier about Lector's Grave, You arrived at the Cemetery of Ashes.

Chapter 3.5: Abhorrent Groapator.

As you walk throughout the Graves, looking at them, you feel like there's ghosts behind you, walking with you, following the ashes.

You reached the end, and see a grave, alone, the Ashes swarms the sky above this grave, blocking your vision from seeing anything, you hear like something, fell from the sky, a heavy thing...

The ashes disappears, you open your eyes, and see a large, bloody werewolf, with no arms at all, sleeping in the ground..

You gaze at him, he slowly wakes up, he tries to stand up, but he can't..

He whispers something, you can't hear it correctly, the only thing you heard was:

"nemo...attingere potest."

"Sepulchra..."

He Screams loudly, His fangs are sharp, more sharp than your saber, and far, far deadlier...

He stands up, looking at you.

He opens his mouth and falls at you, to eat your head, you immediately get back, how terrifying...

He launchs at you to chomp, you get to the side and stab him, he turns back at you and tries to chomp you multiple times, you take a step back and try to stab his mouth, but your saber got stuck between his teeth.

You walk back a little, you don't know what to do now..

The beast approaches you, walking, you fell to the ground, you see a torch, you take it, then you attack the Beast with it.

You hit his head, he burns and screams, while saying loudly:

"Non ignis..."

"Cinis, Cinis.."

You quickly take your sword from him, he continue to scream, rolling in the ground.

The fire fade out, he stands up again, looking at you, letting angry sounds.

He says:

"Spiritus, adiuva me.."

He howls strangely at the sky, a strange Ghost with a sword appears in front of you, sweeping his sword around to hit you, you get back, the Ghost disappears, another Ghost appears, rushing at you with his sword, attacking you from the side, you block it, then a ghost appears above you, attacking you with the sword, you get back immediately, he disappears.

The Beast jumps at you to chomp, you get back, and thrust your sword into his eye, he Screams loudly from the pain.

"Spiritus, quaeso, me adiuvate.." he says.

A spear ghost appears, and charges at you to stab you, you get to the side quickly.

This beast is not ordinary, there's something weird about him, summoning spirits with him isn't a thing a Beast can do...

He jumps at your face, you get to the side and cut his body, he gets up and howls again, summoning another Ghost, this time a hammer Ghost.

He charges his attack from above, the hammer seems heavy, you get back, the Beast Charges at you to eat you from your legs, you jump at his body and stab his back.

You jump to the ground immediately.

He Screams, he says painfully:

"non mea..."

He turns at you, looking directly into your eyes, while laying at the ground, you walk to him, and stab his head.

He says, before dying:

"L-Lector... ignosce.. mihi.", you can hear pain from his words...

He turns into ashes, you turn to face Lector's grave, you sit in front of it, putting the ring besides it...

Suddenly, the Ring turns into Ashes too, joining the Ashes in the sky, swarming your vision, you don't see anything at all...

You feel like your are floating right now, like a little child..

End of Chapter 3.